老照片—蘇曼

Video 1.  上海百年記憶 (YouTube link)

歌手：蘇曼 (四川成都人; 女中音歌手)

詞曲：蘇曼

歌詞

你是天邊那一片雲

偶爾也會飄進我的心

撩起我心中最深的情意

那是一段最難忘的記憶

那年的老槐樹還在原地

那年的我們已成過去

泛黃的老照片述說一段過往

有些話語只能放在心底

吹來一陣風翻開這記憶

往事好像是昨天的小溪

這照片中有你

這照片中有我

我們一直就未曾遠離

似水的年華隨風而去

記憶的珍貴還在這裡

八月的桂花香

淡淡的飄心裡

我又回到了逝去的往昔

吹來一陣風翻開這記憶

往事好像是昨天的小溪

這照片中有你 這照片中有我

我們一直就未曾遠離

吹來一陣風翻開這記憶

往事好像是昨天的小溪

這照片中有你 這照片中有我

我們一直就未曾遠離

這照片中有你 這照片中有我

我們一直就不曾老去

老照片還 原上海百年記憶

Sam Sanzetti (1902- 1986) - whose real name was Semyon Liphshitz - was a Jewish-Israeli photographer who came to Shanghai from Russia in 1922 in a state of great poverty. After working five years as an apprentice for another photographer he opened his own studio in 1927 at 171 East Nanjing Road. It became an immediate success and employed dozens of workers. Sanzetti spoke fluent Chinese Mandarin and Shanghainese, and married a Shanghainese lady.

During his stay in Shanghai, Sanzetti shot over 20,000 hand-tinted portrait photographs. Being part of the prosperous Jewish community of Shanghai, Sanzetti rubbed shoulders with figures of high society, diplomatic envoys, noted public figures, and so forth. He was a talented portraitist and knew how to depict the softness of one’s skin, the intensity of a gaze, an assertive posture, a woman’s beauty, and a child’s innocence. His portraits somehow convey the atmosphere of early twentieth-century cosmopolitan Shanghai. He left Shanghai in 1957 for Israel where he continued his activity as a photographer. He stayed there until his death in 1986.